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Dawson City: Frozen Timedocumentary

Dawson City: Frozen Time

2016

Bill Morrison

Documentary

7.3

216

Documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s - 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.. Using archival footage to tell the story, the film depicts a unique history of a Canadian gold rush town by chronicling ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"A haunting cinematic time capsule (...) 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' should delight cinephiles with its copious footage from films previously thought lost forever"
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Intelligent but at times exhausting (...) It’s just too long and deliberate for its own good (...) But this isn’t a boring subject."
		Chuck Bowen Slant	"Throughout, filmmaker Bill Morrison mixes documentarian detail with an ecstatic sense of poetry (...) A requiem for a continent of ghosts who refuse to be buried (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Wondrous, almost indescribable (...) Morrison has taken his sensibility one step further. Part compelling history, part remarkable aesthetic experience"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It hovers between memory and dream, and brings ghostly faces to vivid life. And it pays bittersweet tribute to the faith that movies can uphold — that these images, these people, once captured on film, can never be taken away."

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